Investment Professionals
Mark Hughes
Partner
Mark is the founder of Kilroy Partners. Mark is responsible for leading and managing the firm, as well as sourcing, evaluating and managing the firm’s investments. Mark has a track record of success in private equity and investment banking, focused on lower middle market, distressed and special situations.
Prior to founding Kilroy, Mark was a Managing Director and member of the investment committee at Comvest Partners, an operationally-focused middle market investment firm with $2 billion AUM, and made investments in both Private Equity and Credit strategies.
Prior to Comvest, Mark worked as a Managing Director at Tejas Securities Group and Unterberg, Towbin where he was in a senior capacity in principle investing and advisory roles.
Mark graduated from the School of Business at Rutgers College and was a teammate on the Varsity Baseball Team.
Justin Chen
Managing Director
Justin is a Manging Director at Kilroy Partners. He is responsible for all aspects of the investment process, including sourcing, transaction execution and portfolio company oversight.
Prior to joining Kilroy Partners, Justin spent eight years at Comvest Partners, an operationally-focused middle market investment firm with over $2 billion AUM, where he was a Vice President in both Private Equity and Credit strategies. At Comvest he was responsible for evaluating, executing and monitoring equity and credit investments across a variety of industries. He was also a founding member of Comvest’s Strategic Growth Fund, a control buyout fund focused on investing in lower middle market companies typically below $75 million in enterprise value.
Prior to joining Comvest, Justin worked at Canaccord Genuity, a middle market investment bank, where he focused on M&A and public and private financings across the manufacturing, technology and clean tech sectors.
Justin graduated from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.
Operating Partners
Yogen Rahangdale
Since 2010, Mr. Rahangdale has lead the investments in and was Chairman and CEO of Kay Manufacturing, Empire Die Casting, and Whitehall Industries
Prior to owning and overseeing these businesses, Mr. Rahangdale spent 13 years at American Axle, a leading multi-billion dollar automotive supplier, in a number of roles, including President, Chief Operating Officer, Vice Chairman and Chief Technology Officer where he was responsible for investing over $3 billion in capital expenditures over his tenure.
Prior to American Axle, Mr. Rahangdale was employed for 12 years at Chrysler Corporation where he led all paint operations and plant modernization activities. Prior to Chrysler, Yogen was employed at Volkswagon.
Yogen has an Engineering degree from APS University in India and an MBA from Michigan State
Michael Dedomenico
From 2000 to 2013, Mr. Dedomenico was the Chairman and President of NuCO2, the largest and the sole national supplier in the United States of bulk CO2 systems and bulk CO2 for carbonating and dispensing fountain beverages. He led the growth of the business from $16 million in EBITDA in 2000 to over $115 million in EBITDA prior to the $1.1 billion sale in 2013 to Praxair, a multi-billion dollar industrial gas company. During his tenure, Mr. Dedomenico sold a stake of the business to Aurora Capital and continued to run the business until the ultimate sale to Praxair.
From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Dedomenico was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Praxair Distribution, Inc., a subsidiary of Praxair Inc. Prior to 1998, Mr. DeDomenico had been employed by Union Carbide Corp. in various capacities from 1969 and when Praxair was spun-off by Union Carbide in 1992, he was named president of Praxair Canada and later president of Praxair Europe.
Mr. DeDomenico has a BS degree in Economics and Finance from Hofstra University and an MBA degree from Georgia State University.
Robert Mintz
Mr. Mintz is currently the CEO of Euro Fresh Foods which is a [DESCRIPTION REQUIRED]. Mr. Mintz has over 23 years of experience in the meat industry and prior to Euro Fresh Foods served as CEO of Rupari Food Services from 1993 to [2013]. Rupari was a leading manufacturer of pre-cooked and sauced meat products, with a focus on pork ribs and other barbeque products.
During his tenure at Rupari, Mr. Mintz diversified the company’s operations from meat import / sourcing to meat cooking and processing capabilities and secured the exclusive license to market pre-cooked ribs under the Tony Roma’s brand name. Mr. Mintz was responsible for developing Rupari’s branded pre-cooked meat products and obtained distribution in every DC of Wal-Mart and all divisions of Costco. Mr. Mintz grew revenues from $25 million to over $130 million in 2011 when he sold the business to a private equity firm.
Jim Newell
Since 2011, Mr. Newell has been the President of Brookhaven Rail, a rail class III rail carrier located on in Long Island.
Mr. Newell has over 42 years of experience in transportation / rail operations including all phases of budgets, cost analysis, logistics, asset utilization, supply chain management, manpower, safety, engineering, mechanical, labor relations, and network train movements.
From 2004 to 2011, Mr. Newell was the President of TLA Rail Logistics, a waste by rail business.
From 1978 to 2004, Mr. Newell held a number of management positions for CSX Transportation, one of the nations leading transportation suppliers and Class I railroad, and ended his tenure as the General Manager of Network Operations. Mr. Newell was also a Division Manager in Atlanta and General Manager of the Cumberland Division in Cumberland, MD.